, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Within moments of taking our seats in the back corner of the Grand Orient, Diane Smith-Gander is waved down by a friendly face and congratulated on her latest appointment. “Will you have the school gown and everything? Look at you,” I hear over my left shoulder, before spotting former Australian diplomat and investment adviser John Goodlad.